And Stories Are All We Have

Heinlein, towards the end of his oeuvre concluded that reality was not logical but whimsical. Given various things going on right now, he might have had a point, but not quite.

Pratchett talked about a force “Narrativium” holding reality together. And he was right, at least for humans. The problem is that the rest of reality doesn’t really much care what humans see, and also that Narrativium can be an unwittingly deceptive force.

Pratchett played it both seriously and for laughs. I.e. he was...